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Examines the role of appraisals as a way of improving productivity and effectiveness within successful organizations. Identifies ways in which appraisals help both employers and employees. Suggests that there is room for improvement in most performance appraisals and discusses various ideas. Computer software is one of the ways in which performance appraisals can be dealt with more proficiently. This article evaluates the three leading software programs available currently and provides a comparison of the features. Concludes that the products do not solve all the problems encountered in performance appraisals, but do give structure to the process and make this sort of appraisal easier to conduct.

Making writers of e‐mail messages aware of appropriate “netiquette” will enhance today’s instant communication process. Researchers determined what the literature recommends as being appropriate “netiquette”, surveyed a university business faculty to determine their knowledge of appropriate “netiquette”, and compared the faculty members’ knowledge with guidelines from the literature.